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Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce cpuid_on_cpu() and cpuid_eax_on_cpu() [message #11687 is a reply to message #11672]

Mon, 02 April 2007 16:20

hpa
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Registered: January 2007

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Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 02 April 2007 13:38, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> They will be used by cpuid driver and powernow-k8 cpufreq driver.
>>
>> With these changes powernow-k8 driver could run correctly on OpenVZ kernels
>> with virtual cpus enabled (SCHED_VCPU).
>
> This means openvz has multiple virtual CPU levels? One for cpuid/rdmsr and one
> for the rest of the kernel? Both powernow-k8 and cpuid attempt to schedule
> to the target CPU so they should already run there. But it is some other CPU,
> but when they ask your _on_cpu() functions they suddenly get a "real" CPU?
> Where is the difference between these levels of virtualness?
>

The CPUID and MSR drivers do not schedule to the target CPU; instead, on
hardware, they rely on IPI'ing the target processor if it is not the one
that's currently running.

There were a lot of discussion back when about which was the better
solution. Alan Cox, in particular, really preferred the interrupt
solution as being less likely to cause implicit deadlock.

I do want to add that it's been on my list for some time -- in fact, I
keep implementing it half-way and then having other things to do -- to
add MSR and CPUID ioctls() that allow the full register file to be set
and read back, in order to support architecturally broken MSR and CPUID
levels.

-hpa

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		[PATCH 1/3] Introduce cpuid_on_cpu() and cpuid_eax_on_cpu() By: Alexey Dobriyan on Mon, 02 April 2007 11:32
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce cpuid_on_cpu() and cpuid_eax_on_cpu() By: Andi Kleen on Mon, 02 April 2007 12:10
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce cpuid_on_cpu() and cpuid_eax_on_cpu() By: hpa on Mon, 02 April 2007 16:20
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce cpuid_on_cpu() and cpuid_eax_on_cpu() By: Andi Kleen on Mon, 02 April 2007 16:55
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce cpuid_on_cpu() and cpuid_eax_on_cpu() By: Alexey Dobriyan on Tue, 03 April 2007 13:33
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce cpuid_on_cpu() and cpuid_eax_on_cpu() By: Andi Kleen on Tue, 03 April 2007 13:42
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce cpuid_on_cpu() and cpuid_eax_on_cpu() By: Alexey Dobriyan on Tue, 03 April 2007 14:50
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce cpuid_on_cpu() and cpuid_eax_on_cpu() By: claudiuc on Mon, 02 April 2007 11:33

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